Carving with a Chainsaw!
I've said it before, and I will say it again! When an idea for a new project, new media, or technique gets stuck in my head it becomes an obsession and it will be there brewing and stewing until it is just about to boil over and then...POW~!
So we bought a wooded lot to build our home and now live in the midst of a lovely pine forest... the trees that my husband Peter cleared for the house lot became my newest obsession and I dreamt about a chainsaw and how it might break into these solid forms - how it might transform and enliven them... carving and 3-D work is a comfort zone of sorts for me, though I spend much time working in 2-D. I am most comfortable creating work that you can walk around, that you can view in the round... I feel that I am returning to my roots, pardon the pun! with this work - it is immediate in a sense of breaking into the form on the first strike of the saw, it is fresh, alive, movement informs the work... rough cuts, smoothness under bark, hash marks, and contrasting textures taste delicious to my eye... Verisimilitude is not my goal... I am after a hint, a gesture, a suggestion of form... a stoicism and certainty of identity still... These beings know who they are, they know where they stand. |